'echo' heart test: life threatening - Echocardiography a diagnostic test on the heart using soundwaves is more dangerous than had been thought, and could lead to life threatening complicat...

Heart Attack: The catheter gives way to equally useless technology - The catheter is fast becoming a thing of the past when it comes to treating a heart attack patient.

Transfusing red cells can be life threatening - A further doubt has been raised about blood transfusions following a new study that has found that transfusing red cells can endanger the life of pati...

Nut Allergy: The 4 golden rules to avoid a life-threatening attack - If you have a nut allergy, there are four major things you need to do if you are to avoid a serious – and possibly fatal – reaction, especially if you...

Catheter use - don’t let facts spoil a cherished procedure - Medicine is more often a belief system than a science, and doctors invariably cling to practices they know and love, irrespective of the data. Take, f...

Catheter use - don’t let facts spoil a cherished procedure - Medicine is more often a belief system than a science, and doctors invariably cling to practices they know and love, irrespective of the data. Take, f...

Pneumonia: How to avoid it in hospital - Patients who are put on a ventilator while in the intensive care unit (ICU) are very likely to develop life-threatening pneumonia. It’s a risk that I...

Heart drug is wrecking my life - A drug for the few - Flecainide acetate (Tambocor) is a sodium-channel-blocking antiarrhythmic drug specifically prescribed for life-threatening cases of tachycardia (exce...